In 1986, Jeff Hoyt received his PhD in Physical Metallurgy from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1988-1996, he was a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. For the next ten years Dr. Hoyt was a member of the technical staff at the Sandia National Laboratories at both the Livermore, CA and Albuquerque, NM sites. In 2007 Dr. Hoyt returned to academia and joined the faculty at McMaster University in the Department of Materials science and Engineering. After serving as Department chair for five years, Prof. Hoyt semi-retired in 2016. Prof. Hoyt’s research interest is all aspects of phase transformations, as well as computational techniques such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods.
